If you look in the man page for 'mount' I think you will
find a few options (-o ...) for choosing how to deal with
uppercase letters while visiting fat-land.
specifically search for "shortname="
Raffaele:
Ok, I would have never guess that, as you can see there are
no names containing ~ char looking the output below.
it's internal these days, unless you're unlucky to still work
in DOS.
I wonder if some mkfs.vfat option can override this
behaviour, clearly I remember that during the last year I
did backup regularly from work to home without having
troubles.
yes, as above, see the man page for mount.
put the options in your /etc/fstab file to make it automatic.
If you look in the man page for ‘mount’ I think you will
find a few options (-o …) for choosing how to deal with
uppercase letters while visiting fat-land.
specifically search for “shortname=”
Raffaele:
Ok, I would have never guess that, as you can see there are
no names containing ~ char looking the output below.
it’s internal these days, unless you’re unlucky to still work
in DOS.
I am lucky, debian lenny is my special friend.
I wonder if some mkfs.vfat option can override this
behaviour, clearly I remember that during the last year I
did backup regularly from work to home without having
troubles.
yes, as above, see the man page for mount.
put the options in your /etc/fstab file to make it automatic.
Hamish wrote:
> If you look in the man page for 'mount' I think you will
> find a few options (-o ...) for choosing how to deal with
> uppercase letters while visiting fat-land.
specifically search for "shortname="
Raffaele:
> Ok, I would have never guess that, as you can see there are
> no names containing ~ char looking the output below.
it's internal these days, unless you're unlucky to still work
in DOS.
I am lucky, debian lenny is my special friend.
> I wonder if some mkfs.vfat option can override this
> behaviour, clearly I remember that during the last year I
> did backup regularly from work to home without having
> troubles.
yes, as above, see the man page for mount.
put the options in your /etc/fstab file to make it automatic.